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you almost question whether or not they love our country. >> plus how president trump's fellow leaders treat him behind the scenes. and elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg square off over transparency and corruption. >> who is doing the fundraising for the mayor, what special accesses are they getting? what's happening behind closed doors? >> i certainly think it would be a good idea for her to release as i have to cover her entire career. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, right now. >> good sunday morning. welcome to "inside politics." i'm david gregory in this morning for john king. thanks so much for joining us. buckle up for a historic december. by the end of this month it's now all but certain that donald j. trump will be the third president in american history to be impeached. >> the president has engaged in

abuse of power, undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections, sadly. but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for america, today i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. >> democrats want a vote by christmas, and the timeline is tight. the judiciary committee will hold a second impeachment hearing tomorrow and then it must vote on the actual articles likely by the end of the week. after that, a vote by the full house before congress leaves town for the holidays. rather than mounting a defense, the white house is sticking to its strategy of trying to delegitimize the process. pat cipollone wrote a letter to jerry nadler, as you know, your impeachment inquiry is completely baseless and has violated basic principles of due process and fundamental

fairness. house democrats have wasted enough of america's time with this charade. you should end this inquiry now and not waste even more time with additional hearings. for his part, the president claims public opinion is on his side. >> yi know that the impeachment thing is a total hoax, the numbers have totally swung our way. they don't want to see impeachment. especially in the swing states. i've never seen a swing like this. because people realize it's a total hoax t. people see that it's just a continuation of this three-year witch hunt. >> in fact, we've seen public opinion polling shows that voters remain more or less split on impeachment. julie pace with the associated press, and jeff zelleny and the washington post. good morning to all of you. >> julie, here we go. we've got this big week ahead.

where do we go on this very fast timeline to vote on articles of impeachment? >> there are two important tracks, in the house and senate. on the house side, certainly what those articles of impeachment will look like, how does the house potentially pull in some of the mueller investigation or do they try to stay focused on ukraine and how does pelosi manage the anxiety we're seeing from the house democrats that were slow to get on board. i would really watch the senate. that's where it's going to head after the holidays. the republican senate will hold a trial and if everything holds up, it will be a robust trial where both the white house and democrats will be able to call witnesses. the relationship to watch there, mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer who are going to have to negotiate over the rules. >> this whole question of how narrow, how broad are these articles going to be, and you do see some democrats who we can't forget are in more vulnerable districts, districts that were

won by president trump. and they're saying let's be careful about what we do. we go to the full screen here, representative brad snider from illinois saying we want something that's very tightly defined. i don't think we should be throwing the whole kitchen sink and try to overreach. another senator, if we impeach the president for everything he's done that's impeachable, it will probably take us to 2025. let's be smart, disciplined and focused about this and get it done. the charge will be this is impeachment because you never liked him in the first place. >> they're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. there's a faction that wants to stay focused on ukraine and part of the whole argument the democrats have been making is this is not an isolated case. so how you kind of square the circle is their dilemma. also, the other part of the dilemma is while it seems pretty certain that they will issue an obstruction of congress charge, that's been said over and over again, do they decide to go all

the way and accuse trump of bribery as nancy pelosi and adam schiff has used that word. how do they match their articles to their rhetoric? and there are moderate democrats who are nervous about i. but unless they match the articles to their rhetoric, they kind of undermine what they've been saying. and they have to figure out in the next few days what the sweet spot is on all of that. if they don't include a reference to some of the things in the past then they -- >> well, obstruction of congress, this is what people can understand. when pelosi says you can't do whatever you want to do as president. you have to stand up for congress, which doesn't often stand up for itself. >> and we don't know exactly which route, but one guide is speaker pelosi's own words. she's been reluctant from the beginning. remember back in september she said this is going to be a big moment. she has not approached this in a gleeful way. so that's why i believe it's going to be more of a narrow path here. this is going to be narrow

articles and she wants to -- you know, all of her rhetoric has been consistent, so she is hoping to control some of her more liberal members. there is a tendency to want to throw everything in, but she is very cognizant of the majority makers and how difficult it is for them. so i'm keeping an eye on her and i think she'll go in a narrow way. but we'll see how it works. >> vivian, the vice president mike pence on fox over the weekend. he's still working the house portion of this, warning these vulnerable democrats about what could happen. let's watch this. >> there's more than 31 democrats in congress who are in districts that the president carried in 2016. i really believe that if the american people will let their voice be heard, especially to those democrats that just arrived a year ago on capitol hill, we would still have a chance to set this partisan impeachment aside. >> see, i think they would love to see as many defections as

possible to say, you know, there's not unanimity here. >> and there isn't. that's something important to realize. the various articles and sort of reconciling which ones they want to pursue and not, for a number of democrats it's a dicey situation. on the one hand they do want to show that they're supporting the party and impeachment of the president, but on the other hand they don't want to make it seem like they're going into it blindly without really scrutinizing all the facts in front of them. so with a greater number of articles that will be presented, maybe they could pick and choose to show that they weren't just going for a sweeping impeachment vote. and so this is something that a lot of them have realized going into 2020, is that they might face pushback from voters. >> what i can't seem to get past is this is all kind of set play. we know what's going to happen and how this is going to play out. and it really plays to donald trump, too, who said at the end of the week on thursday, he said -- this is something he

tweeted, fbs. if you're going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the senate and our country can get back to business. we will have schiff, the bidens, pelosi, and many more testify and show how corrupt our system really is. impeachment, reality show, bring it on. he wants it now. >> he does want it now. and we don't know what a senate trial is going to look like in today's age. it is a lifetime ago, the clinton impeachment in terms of how media is conducted. so he can eager to have this show and he's been defining this from the very beginning. and winning in some respects. but there are still voters out there in the middle. suburban women will hold the key for the 2020 election. so he wants it to go quick. but i don't think that we know exactly how this is going to end up. i think we should just be -- at least my mind is open. we don't know what the vote will be. what does susan collins and corey gardner do?

>> they don't know how the politics of this plays. the they are making the argument that voters are very hardened, republicans stand with him, democrats oppose him. but in reality they don't know what this looks like next year after we get through a senate trial. >> and it is a trial in an election year, which we shouldn't underplay. >> and that's part of why he's moving so quickly and why the courts haven't been involved up to this point and the gop has been pushing back and saying where is the fire. you're going to have an election anyway. but the point you're making, there is a way for the gop and the senate to kind of thread the needle and say we want to have a legitimate trial, so we'll become in any of the witnesses. maybe you'll have votes for like mitt romney and susan collin, to hear from john bolton and things like that. but they don't have to go all the way home at the end of the day and say this was an impeachable offense. if you look at the precedent of the members of the house that we thought were going to do that,

who did the opposite thing. if you look at just going back and the concerns everybody raised about brett kavanaugh. how many people actually voted against him in the end? it's easy for the gop to do everything preliminary and look like they might be on the fence and then side with the president. >> the question is whether any republicans want to make a statement about the president's conduct, in the course of the trial, short of impeaching him. we haven't seen whether they want room to make that statement. we'll take a break and come right back. when we come back, we'll talk about house speaker pelosi who was the reluctant impeacher, got to yes after this. >> announcer: "inside politics" is brought to you by dangote products. go to cnn.com/innovate to learn about innovations today that could change our world in the future.

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third presidential impeachment in american history and cement it as a major part of her legacy. >> the facts of the ukraine situation just changed everything. an impeachment is not a pleasant experience. it can be divisive. we don't take any glee in this at all. it's heartbreaking. but the president gave us no choice. >> you know, there's obviously a sense of duty, i believe, in terms of what her constitutional duty is. she also has faced a lot of pressure from within her caucus to do this for a long time. >> yeah, i mean, it's been a long road basically this year for nancy pelosi. and she more than anyone, has been warning about the detrimental effect that an impeachment proceeding could have on the country, especially as we go into an election year, and the impact it could have on democrats that are running for election in 2020. obviously this has been a hard decision for her, but again,

mounting pressure when the ukraine details came out, when the whistle-blower reports came out, it just seemed like at that point she had no real choice but to proceed. >> the republican argument all along has been this is an effort to delegitimize this president, that democrats wanted him impeached from day one, and that was all distilled into a question by james rosen sinclair, formerly about fox who i covered the white house with, very good reporter. on the speaker's way out of her press conference, asked whether the speaker hated the president. watch this moment. >> reporter: do you hate the president, mad am speaker? >> i don't hate anybody. >> representative collins -- >> i don't hate anybody. not anybody in the world. so don't you accuse me of -- >> i did not accuse you. >> you did. i resent you using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. i don't hate anyone.

i prey fay for the president ale time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. >> we can talk about james and talk about the provacative nature of that question, but that was a moment that really got at something here, which is we know impeachment is a political process. but as it becomes so personal and so much about delegitimizing public figures, that that overtakes the constitutional question. >> it was a striking moment and it's clear what pelosi is trying to do. she's trying to separate personal feelings that democrats have about the president from what she views as a violation of the constitution, basically saying we don't like all of these things he's done, a lot of democrats don't like him personally, but that's not about that. this is about a violation of the constitution and we have no choice. and i do think one of the problems for democrats as we go into the election year is the many moments where nancy pelosi

has gotten up and said i don't want to do this unless it is bipartisan. i don't want to do this unless we can get republican votes are going to be played over and over again in a reality where we don't have republican votes. she again will say that they had no choice and that republicans are overlooking constitutional violations. but i do think that's a real obstacle. >> and the reality is we saw it in the constitutional scholars the other day. one of the scholars talking about the president's son, bringing it into personal terms. there are a lot of democrats who just plain hate the president. so she does have a job to deal with that criticism. >> yeah, there's an animus against the president and there was a lot of convention and he didn't win the popular vote and a lot of people are sore about that. there's always a challenge when you're dealing with anything that comes to a constitutional question. can you separate the emotions from the laws? and when you do, it results in more boring hearings.

but seriously, right, and think about how that was just four legal experts. how many they had during the clinton impeachment era. but you saw that the republican legal scholar was trying to make that case, too. he didn't vote for trump, but he thinks this doesn't meet the bar. this is the problem. you're not arguing about the facts here. you're not arguing about the people here. the characters are set. the fact pattern is set. you're arguing about the intent and the feelings. that comes back down to emotion. >> there's no question that the president wants to keep nancy pelosi as a villain in 2020, no matter who he's running against. she's got to be part of that play. >> without a doubt. and i think that is one thing that is outside of the speaker's control, how the president and republicans have defined this. she was hoping to get some bipartisan support, even will herd or other skeptical republicans. but that has been very elusive. now the question is will she get all democrats on her side. so it's wrong to say there's no

politics involved in this at all. of course there is. impeachment is a political movement or act. but i think the degree to which this proceeds over the next week, i think most democrats are unified in this because they also have to answer to their democratic voters, but the president is defining all of this and he has the bully pulpit here. >> this will also cement her status on tleft as well. >> absolutely. and people are wondering what took her so long to get to this point. >> we're going to take a break here. when we come back, we're going to turn to the 2020 presidential race. for the democrats it's turning into a purity test. lean messes like this,rk, i this, and even this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans now cleans itself.

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there's actually an election coming in only 57 days. that's when the iowa caucuses start. the race for the democratic nomination is turning into a purity test on the left. candidates from both the left and the moderate wings of the party are villainizing anyone with ties to big money and corporate america. here is one example.

senator elizabeth warren slamming mayor pete buttigieg for his private high-dollar fundraisers. >> americans are just sick of the typical politician who says one thing out in public and then goes behind closed doors and doesn't want anyone to know what they're saying to the millionaires and billionaires that are funding this campaign. he should release who is bundling for him and make clear who is on his finance team. this is about the conflicts that he's creating every single day right now. >> obviously buttigieg is doing better, he's getting more attention. he says he will think about opening his fundraisers and he had a tart response on friday to reporters who asked when he'll make that decision. >> again, i don't have a timeline for you. >> as the candidate, can't you just direct your campaign to open those fundraisers? >> yes. >> then why haven't you done

that. >> there are a lot of considerations and i'm thinking about it. >> can you give us an example of those considerations? >> no. >> love for the traveling press corps. buttigieg has his own purity test for warren, demanding she release more information about the money she made doing legal work for big companies in the 1990s. >> i certainly think it would be a good idea for her to release tax returns, as i have, covering her entire career in the private sector. i think that's one way to show your transparency. >> i've already put out 11 years of my tax returns. that's exactly 11 years more than trump. >> jeff, you've been out in iowa and i think this is such a big issue, which is the future of the democratic party and this purity test on the left, versus the electability argument. you spoke on wednesday with a voter -- let me show you that exchange and we'll talk about it. >> i agree with nearly everything that warren has to

say. i would identify as a democratic socialist. but i also understand that i am not representative of the whole electorate and we need to be sure to select a candidate that can defeat donald trump. as i was watching mayor pete speak actually, i thought this guy is going to appeal to someone in a deer stand that is out with his family or friends hunting. >> purity, can they beat trump. >> that's a social studies teacher who i met earlier this summer and she was leaning toward elizabeth warren. she said this is the moment for progressive politics. now she is not sure about that. so what is happening here, senator warren is trying to make some shine off of pete buttigieg. why? because he's rising, particularly in iowa. and they didn't do it at the debate stage a couple of weeks ago in atlanta. this is a preview to the debate likely next week in los angeles. but she's trying to find him, slow his rise a little bit. but it's also saying a lot about

pete buttigieg. we are about to find out if he can take a punch. so far he's been able to skillfully, disarmingly go through all of this -- i was at an event with him on friday and a group of protesters were standing up and called him wall street pete, and he had a smile on his face and said that's what they used to call president obama and then he went to set up the consumer financial protection bureau headed by elizabeth warren. so we'll see how he handles the punch. we don't know. he's an undefined candidate. she's trying to define him. >> you see the orthodoxy on the left that only certain people are pure enough to stand, to stand up. and that's going to be the question, is whether that's where most of the electorate is. >> this is what we see playing out in the primaries and once we get into the general election the candidate tends to drift toward the middle so we can win over democrats and independents and even some moderate

republicans. and so you are seeing this play out because the party generally is shifting more to the left and so this is one thing that you have the elizabeth warrens and the bernie sanders versus some of the others. you have this battle of the big money versus small donor candidates who really push back on those and still do the big fundraisers and that's one of the debates right now within the democratic party, is which approach is truer to the democratic party. and so it's interesting to see this playing out, especially between these two candidates. >> i don't know that it would be that much of -- like this central of a thing if we weren't in the era of a democrat that has to beat donald trump. donald trump is a guy who has a lot of questionable money, money questions. he is a guy who appeals -- boasts about his wealth and his rich friends. he refuses to release his tax returns. there is an element of the party hating that so much, the voters hating everything about that. so are you hypocritical if you

put up a presidential candidate who isn't the antithesis. >> elizabeth warren sounds a lot like donald trump in a lot of areas. and so if you think about where the economic pain is in the country, those are the voters that they want to reach and that is what is smart about the orthodoxy of warren. >> this is the argument that warren and sanders campaigns are making where they say you're misreading the general election electorate where you think we are too far left but we could win over the voters because of the populism argument. i think there's a question about the ideology of the majority of democrats. if you talk to biden advisers, klobuchar advisers, buttigieg advisers, they make points that the liberal voices in the party are loud, they are aggressive, and yet if you look at who votes in democratic primaries, it tends to be a lot of older voters who tend to be more moderate. so i think we are still very much working through what the actual ideology of the majority of the votes are. >> and this year there's a more

moderate pushback. it was defined by the green new deal and that was the ticket to admission, basically, you must support some of these policies. now that's not the case. i'm hearing a lot of moderate pushback. all of that, electability, that's what democrats care about. there's no easy answer to what electability means. it means different things to different people. and people will make the argument that at some point the path to electability is about reframing what the progressive values are in the country that will propel voters to come back to the democratic party and not just to beat trump. the idea that you have to be for something as a democrat. >> right. and so this is the case we have right now where a lot of the newer candidates, like someone like mayor pete buttigieg, is trying to bring something pressure to the party, while at the same time staying to the moderate orthodoxy of the democratic party versus people like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, who are trying

to stay true to their left-leaning ideologies and we're going to see which one the democrats go for. >> quickly on the mckensi business and nondisclosure or buttigieg, is this going to be a bigger issue? >> we'll see how he handles it. the reality is he worked there a short period of time as a junior staffer, so i don't think in and of itself voters who like him to be concerned about that. but if it leads into a larger is he hiding anything, is he really experienced, it's really going into his resumé. but the reality is people are not electing him or not because of his very early time at mckensi. so i'm skeptical that a lot of voters will be troubled, but some liberals are and it's one more reason that they don't like him. >> let's get another break in here. coming up next, elizabeth warren brings her anti-billionaire message to enemy territory, mike bloomberg's own television

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let's turn to some sunday trail mix for a test of the 2020 campaign, starting with one person not on the trail this weekend. that's senator kamala harris. she ended her campaign last week after running out of money and failing to catch fire in any early state. with her out of the picture, just six candidates have qualified for the next debate. all of them white. senator cory booker is one of the candidates struggling to qualify. but his calls for a more diverse field did help him raise much needed cash. his campaign says he's raised more than $1 million since harris dropped out of the race. senator elizabeth warren says billionaire presidential candidate michael bloomberg shouldn't be able to buy an election. nothing new there, except for where she said those comments. >> you're on bloomberg tv. our boss is running against you. >> i heard that. >> you've heard that? so have we. >> we've got a country that is working great for those at the top. it's just not working for much

of anyone else. and that's why i'm so concerned about michael bloomberg jumping into this race, dropping $37 million in one week on ad buys. i don't believe that elections ought to be for sale. >> and former vice president joe biden finished his eight-day bus tour through the state of iowa yesterday, visiting 18 counties during the campaign blitz in mostly rural areas. one moment that stood out, his response to an iowa voter comparing hunter biden's work in ukraine to the ethics of the current president. >> you're selling access to the president just like he is. >> you're a damn liar, man. that's not true and no one has ever said that. >> i didn't say you were doing anything wrong. >> you said i set up my son to work in an oil company. isn't that what you said? get your words straight, jack. >> no more malarky, get your words straight, jack.

was this a strong moment for biden or a get off my lawn. >> if you think that joe biden is a straight talker and that's one of the real benefits that he would bring to the white house, you look at that and say that guy was saying something that wasn't true and he pushed back. if you look at joe biden and say he's a little past his prime and i'm worried about how he can handle tough moments, particularly on a debate stage with donald trump who is going to throw the kitchen sink at him. >> it seems to me he's more prepared to handle trump because i think this issue with his son, he has not been prepared for. and this idea that just like get your facts straight, jack, that's not good enough. >> and i do think that's -- to our point we were having earlier, that's what every voter is looking for. how will you stand up against donald trump, who is going to throw things that are true, inaccurate and somewhere in between and how are you going to quickly be able to handle those. >> and it's personal, too. we saw that in 2016 and it just depends on how joe biden is

going to be able to handle that. >> there are many ways to disarm things and i do think democrats want to see him standing up. but he is certainly angered by that. but at the end of the day is voter said i'll vote for joe biden. >> we'll take another break. when we come back, what president trump's fellow world leaders say about him when they think the cameras are off. after a break. les in the spider's web. with every attempt to free itself, it only becomes more entangled. unaware that an exhilarating escape is just within reach. defy the laws of human nature. at the season of audi sales event.

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president trump is facing new questions in the wake of friday's shootings that left three dead and several others wounded at the navel air station in pensacola, florida. the gunman who also was killed belonged to saudi arabia's military and was training in the u.s. incredibly, the president repeatedly has emphasized how badly the saudis feel about the attack. >> they are devastated in saudi arabia. we're finding out what took place, whether it's one person or a number of people. and the king will be involved in taking care of families and loved ones. he feels very strongly, he's very devastated by what happened and what took place. >> the compassion for the saudis is just striking on the part of the president. his long time middle each goesh yasht is telling david sanger

this morning when it comes to saudi arabia the president's default position is to defend. had an attack been carried out by any country on his muslim ban, his reaction would have been very different. driven by oil, money, weapons sales, a good deal of saudi flattery, trump has created a virch wal enpen trabl zone of immunity for saudi arabia. >> president trump has touted himself as being the toughest president on terrorists, so the caveat is except when it comes to saudi arabia because he's made no secret of the fact that the saudis pay cash for weapons, deals and other economic cooperation in general. and so he does not see a benefit to making them an enemy, essentially. so we see that playing out even when there's something blatant as this, as david says, he would go after probably any other

country and crack down on them if this were the case. if the shooter were from somewhere else. >> the handling of the murder of khashoggi as well stands out. the president on the world stage this week meeting with members of nato at the 70th anniversary of the alliance, was striking in that here was a president who didn't look so good and was isolated by his leaders. there was this moment that was caught on tape of justin trudeau of canada and others seeming to mock the president. we can show a bit of that. >> we have to be careful.

we love that the president takes so many questions of course in the media. but his fellow leaders, including macron, who went from holding the president's hands during his summit meetings to now criticizing him, they made some fun. >> they're making jabs. they're not jabs about policy so much as they are jabs about his persona and how he operates. and i think that that is just -- we report on these sorts of things all the time about various people domestically and abroad that have these impressions of the president. and to see it playing out on tape in real time where you're talking about the gaggle of leaders of significant countries there that the president has had good relationships with in the past, that's significant. it brings it down to almost a high school type of a level. human interactions matter though. >> it's also important to point out to our viewers that so much of these relationships between leaders is very personal. i do want to address this. look at the numbers in the november jobs report that we shouldn't forget.

best month of job creation since john january. unemployment rate pauls to 3.5%, wages climb 3%, stocks jumped, the dow index up 20% for the year. this is a great economy in an election year. >> it's a really strong economy for any other president running for re-election, this is a ticket to victory. the problem here, the president can't seem to just focus on this. if he were only campaigning on this, i think you would see him going into this year in a much stronger position. republicans are hoping his campaign advisers are hoping he can focus. >> but voters still feel it. >> and the economy does not feel as strong to every voter, but if president trump is reelected as most sitting presidents are, it will be driven by the economy, dri driven by these numbers. >> there will be some element of discipline whether the president understands the economy can propel him to a second term. we'll take a break here. our reporters share from their

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though share a page from the notebooks to help you get out in front of the week ahead. julie start us off. >> on monday the federal government would resume executions for the first time in 16 years and that is on hold because the supreme court has blo blocked the first execution and this is one of several instances where the courts are stepping in to block administration priorities. we've seen this numerous times on immigration for example. this is interesting to see how aggressively trump starts trying

to fight back at least verbally grens the supreme court because restarting executions is not something that he prioritized or that there is a national constituency for. >> but they have put so much faith in the judiciary to advance their agenda and if the courts are stymying that, that is a big deal. >> he's hanging over the 2020 race and that is president trump. after spending several days in iowa it's clear that donald trump is hanging over the race. impeachment is drowning so many things out but voter are being drin by president trump. i was surprised talking to liberal voters who are so worried about president trump it is driving their decisions. one woman wanted to support elizabeth warren but can't do it. doesn't think she's as electable so i was struck by the degree to which donald trump dominates something in washington and on the democratic side as well. but the issue here going forward is what does elect ability mean. we talked about how this is sort

of like say 2008, comparisons with the obama campaign and this is like when george w. bush is in office and the president is at the center of so much conversation. >> and many are thinking how do we get this guy out there. >> and the world trade organization was formed to resolve international disputes through multi-lateral rules and starting on december 11th the trade court of the world trade organization is not going to have enough judges to issue binding resolution so someone or a country raises a claim and it essentially could go unresolved so that renders the court crippled. and why did it happen? because for the last two years in part the trump administration has been blocking the court from bringing in new judges. it is part of the trump administration's broader war against a lot of of multi-lateral organizations

including the world trade organization. so in the words of bush 41's trade representative carla hill, you'll replace the rule of law with the rule of the jungle. >> carrin. >> enjoy your breakfast. >> over the weekend we saw the focus of what the national defense authorization act for this year, the annual military authorization bill and there is a trade made for paid family leave for government workers across the government for the space force. now we knew if trump would get his space force there could be a big trade off but i'm looking at what people are are saying about this. if this is a deal locked down this is significant for the family paid issue and whatever the military does sets the tone for the government and whatever the government does set the tone for the nation and there have been a national paid leave policy a policy and the president's daughter have promoted that and what people say on the gop side could set a standard for where

this goes in the future that has a chance of expanding beyond that. >> imagine in washington could be focused on real policy considerations like this that impact so many people. >> thank you very much. that is it for "inside politics." >> coming up next is "state of the union" with dana bash with jerry nadler and mark meadows. thank you again for sharing part of your sunday morning. that is amazing.

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are you ready? house democrats are poised to impeach president trump with leaders in the process of drafting articles now. >> if what we're talking about is not impeachable, then there is nothing impeachable. >> but is there lock step on how to do it. jerry nadler is here. >> and president trump looks ahead to a senate trial. >> there was no crime whatsoever. not even a little tiny crime. >> how are the president's closest allies preparing to defend him. i'll ask republican congressman mark meadows. plus the gloves are off.

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